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Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus
Also titled Mercurius gelast Calypso om Odysseus te laten vertrekken
Gerard de Lairesse (Liège, 1641–1711)
c. 1680
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 132 cm x width 96 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
During his wanderings, Odysseus encounters the nymph Calypso, who falls in love with him and holds him captive on her island. Jupiter then sends Mercury to command her to let Odysseus return to his wife. Lairesse made this painting, together with several other works representing exemplary love and devotion, for Mary Stuart’s apartments in Soestdijk Palace.
